Seth Barnes

What If the God You're Not Sure Exists Can't Stop Thinking About You

I have spent over thirty years watching young people wrestle with this question. Not the polished Sunday school version of it. The real one. The one that shows up at 2am when the room is quiet and the highlight reel of everyone else's life has finall...

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What If the God You're Not Sure Exists Can't Stop Thinking About You What If the God You're Not Sure Exists Can't Stop Thinking About You

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When Your Graduate Doesn't Know What's NextYour son or daughter just graduated. The cap has been thrown. The photos have been taken. The relatives have gone home. And now you're facing a common dilemma: helping your graduate launch into adulthood whe...

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I watched something happen in Guatemala a few weeks ago that I have not been able to shake. We had two groups of young people serving side by side at one of our ministry sites. One group had been on the field for months, living in community, sleeping...

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Something is shifting and I can feel it.For decades, the American script has been simple. Graduate high school. Go to college. Get a degree. Get a job. And for decades, parents have followed that script because it felt safe. It felt responsible. It f...

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Something happened this summer that barely made the news. Congress passed a law that will quietly reshape the way Americans think about education. Starting in July 2026, Pell Grants, the federal government's primary financial aid for low-income ...

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